Graham Jagger
2 nd
Edition

1.
Introduction
2.
A Short History of the War Memorial
2.1
The First World War, 1914-18
2.2
The Second World War, 1939-45
3.
The War Memorial
4.
John F. Beale’s
Notes on a Visit to Belgium
5.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission records
5.1
The Great War 1914-18
5.2
The Second World War 1939-45
6.
War Cemeteries and Memorials
6.1
Aire Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
6.2
Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
6.3
Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Poperinge, Belgium
6.4
Dunkirk Memorial, Nord, France
6.5
Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Gelderland, Netherlands
6.6
Le Touret Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
6.7
Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
6.8
Medjez-el-Bab War Cemetery, Tunisia
6.9
Ramscappelle Road Military Cemetery, Belgium
6.10
Spoilbank Cemetery, Ieper, Belgium
6.11
Steenkerke Belgian Military Cemetery, Veurne, Belgium
6.12
Terlincthun British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
6.13
Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, Belgium
6.14
Welford Road Cemetery, Leicester
6.15
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, Belgium
7.
The 1911 Census of Leicestershire
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22
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22
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4
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27
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On the pew leaflet for 8 May 2005 the Vicar wrote: “The sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War has given rise to an idea about a Remembrance Book.
The concept is to record the names of those from the parish who died in the Two
World Wars and other conflicts since then. In addition to the names there would be the opportunity to do research so as to provide explanatory notes indicating where and when they died, and a brief mention of their life history and involvement in the parish.
“Much of this information can be obtained from the Commonwealth War Graves
Commission at Maidenhead, Berkshire. But what they cannot do themselves, of course, is to put together such information in a book for our church. That depends
[on] our local initiative and the willingness of people in the church and community to see through the task.”
This present monograph represents the first step in this process and is based on information gleaned from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website at http://www.cwgc.org/ , from the 1911 census at http://www.findmypast.co.uk
and from copies of the St James Magazine held in the church archives. The copyright of
Commonwealth War Graves Commission material and the Crown copyright in the census information are gratefully acknowledged.
It is hoped that the research reported here, which may be used without restriction, will provide a starting point for others who may wish to conduct further enquiries.
My thanks are due to Dr Alan McWhirr for his ready counsel and for making available to me material from the church archives.
Graham Jagger
Leicester, December 2012
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The war memorial on the wall of the north aisle in St. James the Greater, Leicester, commemorates those who fell in the two great wars of the twentieth century: the First
World War, 1914-18, and the Second World War, 1939-45. These two phases in the history of the memorial are quite distinct and are described separately.
The idea for a war memorial in St. James the Greater seems first to have surfaced at a Church Council
1
meeting held towards the end of 1919. In January 1920
2
the then
Vicar of St James, The Reverend Charles Edward O’Connor-Fenton, wrote in his letter which appeared in the first edition of the S.
James’ Magazine
that:
“it was decided at a recent meeting of the Church Council that we should take corporate action as a parish and congregation with regard to a War offering, and that the offering should comprise (1) a Memorial, with the names of the fallen from among us inscribed thereon; (2) an organ, as a thankoffering for victory.” At that meeting two committees were appointed: the Memorial Committee, the remit of which was to consider the form the memorial should take, and the Thank-offering Committee. The two threads of memorial and thank-offering appear frequently – sometimes separately, sometimes intertwined – in subsequent issues of the magazine.
On 19 December 1919 a joint meeting of these two committees was held with the primary purpose of electing their officers. Alderman W J Lovell was appointed
Chairman of the Memorial Committee, Mr W Taylor as Treasurer and Mr J F Beale as Honorary Secretary.
1
The Church Council was essentially a meeting of sidesmen and is not to be confused with the PCC, an institution which was given legal status by the Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure 1921, one of the first measures to be passed under powers conferred by the Church of England Assembly
(Powers) Act 1919.
2
Where a month is followed by a year, e.g. January 1920, this signifies the issue of the St. James
Magazine from which the information was taken.
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The first meeting of the Memorial Committee was held on Friday, 16 January 1920.
After some discussion it was agreed that a tablet should be erected in the Church recording the names of those associated with S. James’ who made the great sacrifice, and also the names of any other parishioners which were not included on a similar memorial in any other place of worship. The material for the Memorial was also debated, and the officials were instructed to consult on this with the architect and to suggest a suitable inscription. An appeal for donations was made so that the memorial could be erected without delay. It was requested that the names of
‘parishioners eligible for record’ on the memorial should be sent to the Secretary.
It seems that names of ‘parishioners eligible for record’ were slow in coming. In
March 1920 it was noted that very few names of the fallen had been received and that it was necessary to complete the list as soon as possible.
At the meeting of the Memorial Committee held 19 March 1920 two designs for a tablet in the Church were submitted. One was for a slate tablet on Portland stone background, and the other a copper or brass tablet on a marble background. It was estimated that the total cost of the memorial was likely to be in the region of £200.
At the time of the meeting only £24 18s. had been raised. The previous appeals for donations and the names of the fallen were reiterated.
By April 1920 a note of desperation in the search for names can be detected in the pages of the Magazine. The Vicar wrote that he was anxious to have a complete list of the names of those from the parish and congregation who fell in the Great War.
He pointed out that the names of all those who lived in the parish qualified for being recorded on the memorial whether they were members of the Church of England or not.
It was reported at a meeting of the Memorial Committee held on 17 June 1920 that tenders had been received from two of the principal firms of stonemasons in the city for the construction of a marble tablet, also an estimate and design for the construction of one in oak with gilt lettering. The meeting was generally in favour of the oak tablet, and a detailed drawing of this was being prepared. Although a large number of names had been received, there was still doubt that there were many that
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had not been sent in. A further appeal for more names was made. It was also pointed out that the amount already subscribed was far short of the total required and that more donations were urgently required.
Further work on the design of the memorial was done during the latter half of 1920 and by 16 December 1920 the Memorial Committee were in a position to lay its proposals before the Church Council. The memorial was to consist of an oak tablet, suitably designed and constructed to harmonize with the general surroundings and furniture of the Church. It was decided that the lettering be of best English gold, and that the names be surmounted with the City coat of arms, and a suitable inscription.
Subject to consultation with Mr R C Johnson with respect to the cost of lettering, and the architect’s approval, the tender of Mr. Johnson for its construction at a cost of
£79, exclusive of lettering, was agreed to. The actual cost could not be stated until all the lettering had been decided upon but it was thought it would amount to £150 or
£160. At the time of the meeting the amount promised or subscribed was about £60.
The list of names to be included on the memorial had still not been finalised.
By the end of 1920 the Thank-offering fund for the organ had already reached over
£1000 toward its target of £3000 but the lack of contributions to the memorial appeal was proving to be a major embarrassment. It was clear that a rethink was necessary.
On 6 May 1921 at one of its regular meeting the Memorial Committee came up with a new, and cheaper, proposal. The architect, Mr H H Thompson, had prepared a further design for the memorial. It comprised a bronze tablet, surmounted by a gilt Cross, and lettering in gilt, with mother-of-pearl inlay, and ornamental surround. Three tenders for its construction were submitted and considered. The design was greatly admired, and it was unanimously decided to accept the tender of the Dryad Metal Company, provided that £90 covered the whole cost, and that there were no extras. The Vicar was instructed to place the order at an early date, subject to the approval of the Church Council.
This approval was forthcoming at a meeting of the Church Council held on 12 May
1921. A further £30 was still required, in addition to the sum already raised, to
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meet the cost. It was felt to be of the highest importance that the list of names should be as complete and accurate as possible and yet another appeal was made for further names.
3
By the middle of 1921 the manufacturing of the memorial was well in hand, but the fund was still £24 2s. short of the £90 required. The Memorial Committee was particularly desirous of raising this amount by the time the tablet was completed but it was fully aware that many members of the congregation had subscribed liberally to other war memorials and were, perhaps, reluctant to contribute further to such projects. Undoubtedly the Thank-offering appeal for the organ contributed significantly to the difficulties experienced in raising money for the memorial.
But the required money was raised and on the afternoon of Sunday, 8 October 1921, in the presence of a large congregation, the S. James' War Memorial was unveiled and dedicated. The service was conducted by the Vicar. Col. F. C. Oliver unveiled the memorial and it was dedicated by the Venerable Archdeacon MacNutt, who also preached the sermon.
The Church Council at its meeting on 26 October 1921 was gratified to hear from the
Memorial Committee that the expenses in connection with the memorial have been paid, and that when all subscriptions promised had been received there would be a small balance in hand. The Committee, and especially Mr Beale the Honorary
Secretary and Mr W Taylor the Honorary Treasurer, were thanked for the trouble they had taken in connection with the matter and congratulated on having at length brought the scheme to a satisfactory issue. The Committee, having completed its work, was discharged.
It is interesting to note that J. F. Beale was out of the country at the time of this meeting. On the 15 October he left England to make his own pilgrimage to the battlefields of France and Flanders. Beale’s February 1922 first-hand account of his
travels is worth recording; it is given in section 4 below.
3
No contemporary list of the names submitted for inclusion on the War Memorial seems to have survived, either in the church archives or the archives of the Dryad Metal Company deposited in the
Leicestershire and Rutland Record Office.
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From the photograph shown in section 3 below, it will be noticed that the dates of the
Great War are given on the tablet as 1914-1919, rather than the more usual 1914-
1918. Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914. The armistice – meaning ceasefire or truce
– was signed on 11 November 1918, and this was the de facto end of the war. The war did not end de jure until the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919. Some memorials reflect the earlier date and some the latter.
In the early 1980s, during the Incumbency of the Reverend D. N. Hole, the war memorial was modified by the addition of the names of those who fell in the Second
World War. Only three names were recorded at that time: those of Charles W
Bentley, Ernest L. R. Fortey and Noel C. W Rowe.
The St. James Magazine for the years 1940-44 (the 1945 volume is missing from the church archives) contains details of the fate of a number of St. James’s men. These details are reproduced here.
January 1940
July 1940
September 1940
September 1941
October 1941
November 1941
Albert E Dickens, 8 Ripon Street, reported missing after sinking of HMS
Auxiliary Cruiser Rawalpindi by enemy naval forces on Thursday, November
23, 1939.
4
Sgt. Douglas Walker RA, died at a hospital in the south of England, after having been evacuated from Flanders a few days before seriously wounded.
Charles Bentley on August 6 officially reported to be a prisoner of War in
Germany.
Richard J D Sharpe, 37 Evington Road, Driver in the RASC in the Middle
East, taken Prisoner.
William J Platton, 24 Bannerman Road, taken prisoner
Charles Bentley and Richard J D Sharpe also prisoners
Jack Amott, 2 Kimberley Rd, killed in a flying accident while on active service with the RAF somewhere in England in October
4
On 26 Aug, 1939 the passenger ship Rawalpindi of the P & O Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London, was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to an armed merchant cruiser. On 23 Nov, 1939, the HMS Rawalpindi (Capt E.C. Kennedy, RN) on Northern Patrol was shelled and sunk by the
German battlecruiser Scharnhorst southeast of Iceland in the Iceland-Faroe passage. There were
275 dead and 37 survivors.
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December 1941
February 1942
September 1942
November 1942
May 1943
June 1943
July 1943
August 1943
October 1943
November 1943
Raymond Hubbard 57 St Stephen’s Rd, rescued from the Ark Royal , reportedly sunk on Friday, November 14, 1941.
Pte Maurice A. Garner, of 8 Skipworth Street, killed in action in the far east on
December 10, 1941. He was 22 years old.
Paul Farnsworth RN, 360 Knighton Lane, Leonard Taylor, 29 Medway Street,
RN Telegraphist and Arthur E Newton, 38 Hamilton street, R.C. of Signals, have been taken prisoners of war.
Eric D Morrish, 37 Holmfield Road, died at Catterick, Yorkshire, on 16 July
In September Pilot Officer Phil Cherry was decorated by His Majesty the King at Buckingham Palace with the DFM which he had gained in the Near East.
Reginald Lagor, 18 Beaumont Road, reported missing. He was a Private in the Royal Marines.
Corporal E L R Fortey, 11 Herschell Street, reported wounded on 7 April
Corporal Sidney John Henton serving in the First Army, unofficially reported killed on active service on March 4, 1943.
Sublieut H H (“Peter”) Large of the Fleet Air Arm, was killed on action in April,
1943.
“Ted” Fortey, 11 Herschell Street has now been officially reported missing.
Corporal Sydney John Henton, 9 Herschell Street, whose name was mentioned in the June issue of this magazine, has now been officially reported killed in action on March 4, 1943.
Paul Farnsworth, R.N., 360 Knighton Lane, who for long has been reported missing has now been officially reported a prisoner
Lieut. Charles Clarke of the Inniskilling Fusiliers (whose home is at 33
Kimberley Road) has brought great honour to our Church and Parish and untold joy to many admiring friends by being the first on our long list of men serving in the Forces to win the Military Cross. He was awarded this distinction for a series of gallant exploits in North Africa during the month of
April.
Marine Commando Reginald Lagor, 18 Beaumont Road, who was reported missing in March of this year has recently been reported as “presumed dead on active service.”
We regret to learn that Ernest Fortey, reported some time ago as missing, is now reported dead.
Lt Col Hunter, son of Mr and Mrs Hunter, serving with the Army in India, has been killed.
April 1944
A photograph of the original memorial together with its later modification is shown in
section 3 below.
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Our Glorious Dead
For God, King and Country
1914-1919
Hopcroft, Horace Beckett, Ernest W
Bolton, Edward J
Carryer, Charles Ivan
Cooper, Frank
Ellis, William Frederick
Fower, Ernest William
Grant, Ernest Leonard
Harding, Samuel Collis
Haunton, Frank
Hodgkins, James Percy
Hopkin, Fred Head (server)
James, Harry
Mansfield, Horace William
Moir, Leslie John
Nichols, Lionel Walter (server)
Parker, Norman Webster
Robertson, Malcolm Duncan (server)
Taylor, Walter
Thoyst, Edward
1939-1945
Charles W Bentley Ernest L. R. Fortey Noel C. W Rowe
Graham Jagger
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On the 15th of October I sailed from Dover on Belgian Mail Steamer Stud
Antwerpes for Ostend, on a visit to the Ypres Salient, Brussels and Antwerp.
Owing to the limited space at my disposal, I pass over my impressions of
Ostend. Brussels and Antwerp, and confine my brief article to a description of my visit to Ypres. I left Ostend on the evening of the 15th and arrived at Ypres at 8 p.m., calling at Dixmude, Thourot, Tollcapelle, Langemarke, Pilken,
Boesinghe and other places which were household words during the great war.
It was a beautiful moonlight night, and as I wended my way to the Y.M.C.A.
Hostel, where I was a welcome guest during my stay, past the moat and badly damaged ramparts, my emotions were stirred as I recalled the gallant deeds of thousands of our brave lads, many of whom were personally known to me, whose memories I shall cherish as long as life shall last, and who sleep in and around that ruined town. On the following morning I was afforded a closer view of the ruins of the famous Cloth Hall, now in the hands of those who are taking steps to preserve what is left of it as a memorial to future generations.
Many other traces of the titanic and prolonged struggle were visible, although a new Ypres, like a Phoenix from the ashes, is rising from the ruins of old, and building is progressing apace. One noticed the ruins of the fine St. Martin's
Cathedral, St. Nicholas Church, St. Peter’s Church, the Hospital and many others, whilst the ramparts showed unmistakable signs of the intensity of the bombardment, and the moat had become but an untidy ditch, its banks pitted with shell holes. Latter in the day I motored to the new Irish Farm Cemetery near St. Jean where I was privileged to place some flowers on the grave of a brave Leicester lad. There I had my first visible proof of the loving care and attention bestowed on the last resting-places of our boys, through the good offices of the Graves Commission, who are doing such excellent work. Staffs of gardeners are sowing grass seeds, laying turf, and planting shrubs and flowers.
The rough temporary crosses are giving way to permanent stone memorials, bearing the sign of the Cross and inscriptions chosen by r elatives. That Sunday morning ride from St. Jean to Zonebeke, on to Broodseinde, and the
Cemetery at Tynecot on the Passchandaele Ridge, will remain indelibly
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imprinted on my memory. Although at many of these places, made famous for ever as the scenes of the most vital and the greatest struggles against overwhelming odds this country has ever had, temporary, and in many cases, permanent houses have sprung up, many traces of the severe fighting still remain in the shape of miles of devastated country pitted by shell holes, grass-grown trenches, live shells, shattered block-houses and dug-outs, dumps of rusting barbed wire, rifles, mess-tins and other material, whilst for miles, as far as the eye can see, smashed and withered tree trunks are the only objects which relieve the barren and shell-ploughed land. Our return journey was through Beceleare,
Gheluvelt, through Hooge, where rusty tanks still repose in the mud, along the
Menin road of imperishable memory to all Britishers, into Ypres in time for lunch at the very hospitable Y. M. C. A. Hostel, where Major Marston and his assistants, combined with Captain C. E. de Trafford, have done so much for sorrowing relatives visiting the many beautifully kept cemeteries round. I have no space to describe in detail my visit to Zillibeke, Hill 6o, Kemmel, on the summit of which I spent an hour, studying the scenes of so many great battles which were fresh in my memory, Lindenhoek or other places. The same profound impressions moved me to the end, and grew in intensity as I journeyed in the train, through Menin and Courtrai, for Brussels. The sun was sinking in the west, a great ball of fire, and on either side of the line for miles a dreary desolate wilderness, ruined dug-outs and shell holes, strewn with decaying war material, weapons and equipment, whilst silhouetted against the crimson sky were innumerable dead, barkless and splintered tree trunks, looking like so many grim spectres gazing out on a once fair country that had been scorched and blasted by the fiery breath of some hideous monster. Such is
War! Let us pray earnestly and humbly that the endeavours of those statesmen who are striving to prevent a recurrence in the future may be crowned with success.
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The following tables give details, where known, of the military record of those commemorated on the war memorial.
5
The name of the regiment (often, not surprisingly, the Leicestershire Regiment) is given together with the date of death and the place of burial or, if there is no known grave, the place of commemoration.
Details of these places, and the battles or campaigns with which they were related,
are given in section 6 below. Additional details of next-of-kin are sometimes given.
The final row of each table indicates if any additional biographical information has been found in the 1911 census. In these cases the census data are given in section
7 below. Details are presented separately for each war.
Name:
Initials:
Nationality:
Rank:
Regiment:
Unit Text:
Date of Death:
Casualty Type:
Grave/Memorial Reference:
Cemetery:
1911 Census:
Name:
Initials:
Nationality:
Rank:
Regiment:
Unit Text:
Age:
Date of Death:
Service No:
Additional information:
Casualty Type:
Grave/Memorial Reference:
Cemetery:
1911 Census:
BECKETT, ERNEST WHITTON
E W
United Kingdom
Second Lieutenant
Leicestershire Regiment
1st/4th Bn.
22/03/1918
Commonwealth War Dead
Bay 5.
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Yes
BOLTON, EDWARD JOHNSON
E J
United Kingdom
Gunner
Royal Garrison Artillery
193rd Siege Bty.
43
12/08/1918
89422
Son of Frederick George and Sarah Elizabeth Bolton, of
Kibworth, Leicestershire; husband of Caroline Elizabeth
Bolton, of High St., Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire.
Commonwealth War Dead
II. B. 44.
TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE
Yes
5
This information is taken from the web site of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
(CWGC), http://www.cwgc.org/ .
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Name:
Initials:
Nationality:
Rank:
Regiment:
Secondary Regiment:
Secondary Unit Text:
Age:
Date of Death:
Additional information:
Casualty Type:
Grave/Memorial Reference:
Cemetery:
1911 Census:
Name:
Initials:
Nationality:
Rank:
Regiment:
Unit Text:
Date of Death:
Service No:
Casualty Type:
Grave/Memorial Reference:
Cemetery:
1911 Census:
Name:
Initials:
Nationality:
Rank:
Regiment:
Unit Text:
Date of Death:
Service No:
Casualty Type:
Grave/Memorial Reference:
Cemetery:
1911 Census:
CARRYER, CHARLES IVAN
C I
United Kingdom
Second Lieutenant
Royal Flying Corps
East Yorkshire Regiment and
18
13/08/1916
Son of Charles Barrowdale Carryer and Marian Carryer, of
176, London Rd., Leicester.
Commonwealth War Dead
C. "U." 252.
LEICESTER (WELFORD ROAD) CEMETERY
Yes
COOPER, FRANK
F
United Kingdom
Gunner
Royal Garrison Artillery
22/09/1920
83807
Yes
ELLIS
W P
6
United Kingdom
Lance Corporal
East Yorkshire Regiment
7th Bn.
31/03/1918
37349
Commonwealth War Dead
II. E. 11.
BOUZINCOURT RIDGE CEMETERY, ALBERT
Yes
6
There is a CWGC error here: Ellis’s middle name is Frederick
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Name:
Initials:
Nationality:
Rank:
Regiment:
Unit Text:
Date of Death:
Service No:
Casualty Type:
Grave/Memorial Reference:
Cemetery:
1911 Census:
Name:
Initials:
Nationality:
Rank:
Regiment:
Unit Text:
Age:
Date of Death:
Service No:
Additional information:
Casualty Type:
Grave/Memorial Reference:
Cemetery:
1911 Census:
Name:
Initials:
Nationality:
Rank:
Regiment:
Unit Text:
Age:
Date of Death:
Awards:
Additional information:
Casualty Type:
Grave/Memorial Reference:
Cemetery:
1911 Census:
FOWER, ERNEST W.
E W
United Kingdom
Lance Corporal
Leicestershire Regiment
1st/4th Bn.
13/10/1915
3410
Commonwealth War Dead
Panel 42 to 44.
LOOS MEMORIAL
Yes
GRANT, ERNEST LEONARD
E L
United Kingdom
Rifleman
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
1st/7th Bn.
37
09/10/1917
42672
Husband of Ellen Grant, of 10, Ripon St., Leicester.
Commonwealth War Dead
XXXII. C. 11.
TYNE COT CEMETERY
Yes
HARDING, SAMUEL COLLIS
S C
United Kingdom
Second Lieutenant
Tank Corps
18th Coy. "F" Bn.
23
22/08/1917
MM
7
Son of William Warrington Harding and Cary Louisa
Harding, of 8, Belmont Villas, New Walk, Leicester.
Commonwealth War Dead
Panel 159 to 160.
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Yes
7 Gazetted, 11 November, 1916. “2653 Cpl. (L./Sjt.) S. C. Harding, Leic. R.”
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Name:
Initials:
Nationality:
Rank:
Regiment:
Unit Text:
Age:
Date of Death:
Service No:
Additional information:
Casualty Type:
Grave/Memorial Reference:
Cemetery:
1911 Census:
Name:
Initials:
Nationality:
Rank:
Regiment:
Unit Text:
Date of Death:
Casualty Type:
Grave/Memorial Reference:
Cemetery:
1911 Census:
Name:
Initials:
Nationality:
Rank:
Regiment:
Unit Text:
Age:
Date of Death:
Service No:
Additional information:
Casualty Type:
Grave/Memorial Reference:
Cemetery:
1911 Census:
HAUNTON, WILLIAM ALLAN FRANK
W A F
United Kingdom
Private
North Staffordshire Regiment
8th Bn.
37
01/10/1917
235109
Son of William Alfred Allan Haunton, of Leicester; husband of Frances Maud Haunton, of 13, Bonsall St., Leicester.
Commonwealth War Dead
II. A. 5.
SPOILBANK CEMETERY
Yes
HODGKINS
J P
United Kingdom
Lieutenant
Leicestershire Regiment
2nd/4th Bn.
26/09/1917
Commonwealth War Dead
V. E. 5.
DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
Yes
HOPCROFT, HORACE PHILEMON
H P
United Kingdom
Bombardier
Royal Horse Artillery
Leicestershire Bty.
22
15/03/1915
243
Son of Ralph and Emma Hopcroft, of 54, Skipworth St.,
Leicester.
Commonwealth War Dead
M. "U." 63.
LEICESTER (WELFORD ROAD) CEMETERY
Yes
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Name:
Initials:
Nationality:
Rank:
Regiment:
Unit Text:
Age:
Date of Death:
Service No:
Additional information:
Casualty Type:
Grave/Memorial Reference:
Cemetery:
1911 Census:
Name:
Initials:
Nationality:
Rank:
Regiment:
Age:
Date of Death:
Service No:
Additional information:
Casualty Type:
Grave/Memorial Reference:
Cemetery:
1911 Census:
Name:
Initials:
Nationality:
Rank:
Regiment:
Unit Text:
Age:
Date of Death:
Service No:
Additional information:
Casualty Type:
Grave/Memorial Reference:
Cemetery:
1911 Census:
HOPKIN, FRED HEAD
F H
United Kingdom
Private
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
14th Bn.
31
13/04/1918
30316
Son of Eliza and the late Henry William Hopkin, of
Leicester; husband of Martha Hopkin, of 184, Clarendon
Park Rd., Leicester.
Commonwealth War Dead
II. C. 5.
AIRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Yes
JAMES, HENRY EDWARD
H E
United Kingdom
Airman 2nd Class
Royal Flying Corps
45
21/09/1917
88545
Son of Henry Edward James and Emma James, of
Gloucester; husband of Ada James, of 10, Mill Lane,
Leicester.
Commonwealth War Dead
O1. "C." 249.
LEICESTER (WELFORD ROAD) CEMETERY
Yes
MANSFIELD, HORACE WILLIAM
H W
United Kingdom
Lance Corporal
Leicestershire Regiment
1st/4th Bn.
20
13/10/1915
2603
Son of Herbert and Elizabeth Ann Mansfield, of 61,
Evington Rd., Leicester.
Commonwealth War Dead
Panel 42 to 44.
LOOS MEMORIAL
Yes
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Name:
Initials:
Nationality:
Rank:
Regiment:
Date of Death:
Service No:
Casualty Type:
Grave/Memorial Reference:
Cemetery:
1911 Census:
Name:
Initials:
Nationality:
Rank:
Regiment:
Unit Text:
Age:
Date of Death:
Service No:
Additional information:
Casualty Type:
Grave/Memorial Reference:
Cemetery:
1911 Census:
Name:
Initials:
Nationality:
Rank:
Regiment:
Unit Text:
Age:
Date of Death:
Service No:
Additional information:
Casualty Type:
Grave/Memorial Reference:
Cemetery:
1911 Census:
MOIR, LESLIE JOHN
L J
United Kingdom
Private
Leicestershire Yeomanry
13/05/1915
1732
Commonwealth War Dead
Panel 5.
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Yes
NICHOLS, LIONEL WALTER
L W
United Kingdom
Private
Royal Sussex Regiment
"A" Coy. 2nd Bn.
21
05/07/1917
202598
Only son of Walter E. C. and Florence Nichols, of 15,
Evington Rd., Leicester.
Commonwealth War Dead
II. D. 8.
RAMSCAPPELLE ROAD MILITARY CEMETERY
Yes
PARKER, NORMAN WEBSTER
N W
United Kingdom
Private
Leicestershire Regiment
1st/4th Bn.
19
13/10/1915
3632
Son of Luke Jesse Parker, of "Holm Dene", St. James Rd.,
Leicester.
Commonwealth War Dead
Panel 42 to 44.
LOOS MEMORIAL
Yes
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Name:
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Service No:
Additional information:
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1911 Census:
ROBERTSON, MALCOLM DUNCAN
M D
United Kingdom
Lance Corporal
Leicestershire Regiment
"B" Coy. 1st Bn.
26
27/05/1916
17869
Son of John Charles and Emily Jane Caroline Robertson, of "Canterbury," Houlditch Rd., Knighton, Leicester.
Commonwealth War Dead
F. "C." 852.
LEICESTER (WELFORD ROAD) CEMETERY
Yes
Name:
Initials:
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Additional information:
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1911 Census:
TAYLOR, WALTER
W
United Kingdom
Gunner
Royal Marine Artillery
Howitzer Bde.
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09/11/1917
RMA2247(S)
Son of George and Martha Elizabeth Taylor, of 51, St.
Peter's Rd., Leicester.
Commonwealth War Dead
C. 5.
STEENKERKE BELGIAN MILITARY CEMETERY
Yes
Name:
Initials:
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1911 Census:
THOYST, EDWARD
Not traced in the census
Edward Thoyst remains something of a mystery. No trace of him has been found in the records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and no record of a
Thoyst family has been found either in the 1911 census of the British Isles or the
Registra r General’s records of Births, Marriages and Deaths. It can only be assumed that “Thoyst” was a corruption of another family name which occurred
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during the copying of names from one list to another during the period when the design for the memorial was being finalised.
Name:
Initials:
BENTLEY, CHARLES WALTER
C W
United Kingdom Nationality:
Rank:
Regiment:
Unit Text:
Age:
Private
Royal Army Service Corps
2 Field Bakery.
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Date of Death:
Service No:
Additional information:
24/04/1945
S/99420
Son of Earnest and Martha Minnie Bentley, of
Leicester.
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Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Column 140.
Cemetery: DUNKIRK MEMORIAL
Name:
Initials:
FORTEY, ERNEST LEEFE ROBINSON
E L R
United Kingdom Nationality:
Rank:
Regiment:
Unit Text:
Age:
Private
Northamptonshire Regiment
5th Bn.
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07/04/1943 Date of Death:
Service No:
Additional information:
5889265
Son of Walter Edward and Annie Fortey, of
Leicester.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 1. C. 3.
Cemetery: MEDJEZ-EL-BAB WAR CEMETERY
8
In December 1939 living at 23 Herschell Street: formerly in the Choir.
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Name:
Initials:
Nationality:
ROWE, NOEL CLAUDE WALTER
N C W
Rank:
Regiment:
Unit Text:
Age:
Date of Death:
United Kingdom
Lieutenant
Leicestershire Regiment
1st Bn.
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26/04/1945
187426 Service No:
Additional information: Son of Claude Edward and Lucy Rowe; husband of Effie Rowe, of Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 14. F. 4.
Cemetery: JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY
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The following paragraphs give brief details of where those commemorated on the war memorial are buried or, if they have no known grave, the battlefield memorial on which they are commemorated.
From March 1915 to February 1918, Aire was a busy but peaceful centre used by
Commonwealth forces as corps headquarters. The Highland Casualty Clearing
Station was based there as was the 39th Stationary Hospital (from May 1917) and other medical units. Plot I contains burials from this period. The burials in plots II, III and IV (rows A to F) relate to the fighting of 1918, when the 54th Casualty Clearing
Station came to Aire and the town was, for a while, within 13 kilometres of the
German lines. The cemetery now contains 894 Commonwealth burials of the First
World War and a few French and German war graves. There are also 21 Second
War burials, mostly dating from the withdrawal to Dunkirk in May 1940. The
Commonwealth plots were designed by Sir Herbert Baker.
The French handed over Arras to Commonwealth forces in the spring of 1916 and the system of tunnels upon which the town is built were used and developed in preparation for the major offensive planned for April 1917. The Commonwealth section of the Faubourg D'amiens Cemetery was begun in March 1916, behind the
French military cemetery established earlier. It continued to be used by field ambulances and fighting units until November 1918. The cemetery was enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields and from two smaller cemeteries in the vicinity. The cemetery contains 2,651 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. In addition, there are 30 war graves of other nationalities, most of them German. During the Second World War, Arras was occupied by United Kingdom forces headquarters until the town was evacuated on
23 May 1940. Arras then remained in German hands until retaken by
Commonwealth and Free French forces on 1 September 1944. The cemetery
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contains seven Commonwealth burials of the Second World War. The graves in the
French military cemetery were removed after the First World War to other burial grounds and the land they had occupied was used for the construction of the Arras
Memorial and Arras Flying Services Memorial. The Arras Memorial commemorates almost 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand who died in the Arras sector between the spring of 1916 and 7 August 1918, the eve of the Advance to Victory, and have no known grave. The most conspicuous events of this period were the Arras offensive of April-May 1917, and the German attack in the spring of 1918. Canadian and Australian servicemen killed in these operations are commemorated by memorials at Vimy and Villers-Bretonneux. A separate memorial remembers those killed in the Battle of Cambrai in 1917. The Arras Flying
Services Memorial commemorates nearly 1,000 airmen of the Royal Naval Air
Service, the Royal Flying Corps, and the Royal Air Force, either by attachment from other arms of the forces of the Commonwealth or by original enlistment, who were killed on the whole Western Front and who have no known grave. Both cemetery and memorial were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, with sculpture by Sir William
Reid Dick.
Westvleteren was outside the front held by Commonwealth forces in Belgium during the First World War, but in July 1917, in readiness for the forthcoming offensive, groups of casualty clearing stations were placed at three positions called by the troops Mendinghem, Dozinghem and Bandaghem. The 4th, 47th and 61st Casualty
Clearing Stations were posted at Dozinghem and the military cemetery was used by them until early in 1918. There are now 3,174 Commonwealth burials of the First
World War in the cemetery and 65 German war graves from this period. The cemetery also contains 73 Second World War burials dating from the Allied withdrawal to Dunkirk in May 1940. The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald
Blomfield.
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Dunkirk witnessed the landing of the British Expeditionary Force in September and
October 1914. Throughout the First World War it was a seaplane base and later an
American Naval Air Service base. The town was also a French hospital centre and the 8th Canadian Stationary Hospital was there from November 1918 to April 1919.
Although an estimated 7,500 shells and bombs fell on the town during the war, ship building and other port activities continued. During the Second World War, Dunkirk was the scene of the historic evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from
France in May 1940. Dunkirk Town Cemetery contains 450 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, ten of them unidentified. The graves are situated in Plots 1 to
3 in the public part of the cemetery to the right of the main entrance, and in Plots 4 and 5 of the Commonwealth War Graves section adjacent to the Dunkirk Memorial.
Of the 800 Second World War burials, more than 200 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 58 soldiers known to be buried among them. These graves are in Plots 1 and 2 of the section by the Dunkirk Memorial. There are also
Czech, Norwegian and Polish war graves within the Commonwealth section, and war graves of other nationalities will be found elsewhere in the cemetery. The Dunkirk
Memorial stands at the entrance to the Commonwealth War Graves section of
Dunkirk Town Cemetery. It commemorates more than 4,500 casualties of the British
Expeditionary Force who died in the campaign of 1939-40 and who have no known grave. The memorial was designed by Philip Hepworth. The engraved glass panel depicting the evacuation was by John Hutton.
The Netherlands fell to the Germans in May 1940 and was not re-entered by Allied forces until September 1944. Nijmegen was a front line town from 17 September
1944 until February 1945. The cemetery, which was created by No. 3 Casualty
Clearing station, is in a wooded area known as Jonkers Bosch, from which it took its name. Jonkerbos War Cemetery contains 1,629 Commonwealth burials of the
Second World War, 99 of them unidentified, and 13 war graves of other nationalities.
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The Cemetery was begun by the Indian Corps (and in particular by the 2nd
Leicesters) in November, 1914, and it was used continuously by Field Ambulances and fighting units until March, 1918. It passed into German hands in April, 1918, and after its recapture a few further burials were made in Plot IV in September and
October. The grave of one Officer of the London Regiment was brought in in 1925 from a position on the Estaires-La Bassee road near "Port Arthur", and the 264
Portuguese graves of March, 1917 and April, 1919 were removed to Richebourg-
L'Avoue Portuguese National Cemetery after the Armistice. There are now over 900,
1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. The graves of three men of the
King's Liverpool Regiment, which were destroyed by shell fire, are now represented by special headstones. The Cemetery covers an area of 7,036 square metres and is enclosed by a low brick wall.
Dud Corner Cemetery stands almost on the site of a German strong point, the Lens
Road Redoubt, captured by the 15th (Scottish) Division on the first day of the battle.
The name "Dud Corner" is believed to be due to the large number of unexploded enemy shells found in the neighbourhood after the Armistice. On either side of the cemetery is a wall 15 feet high, to which are fixed tablets on which are carved the names of those commemorated. At the back are four small circular courts, open to the sky, in which the lines of tablets are continued, and between these courts are three semicircular walls or apses, two of which carry tablets, while on the centre apse is erected the Cross of Sacrifice. This memorial commemorates 20597 identified casualties.
In May 1943, the war in North Africa came to an end in Tunisia with the defeat of the
Axis powers by a combined Allied force. The campaign began on 8 November 1942, when Commonwealth and American troops made a series of landings in Algeria and
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Morocco. The Germans responded immediately by sending a force from Sicily to northern Tunisia, which checked the Allied advance east in early December. In the south, the Axis forces defeated at El Alamein withdrew into Tunisia along the coast through Libya, pursued by the Allied Eighth Army. By mid April 1943, the combined
Axis force was hemmed into a small corner of north-eastern Tunisia and the Allies were grouped for their final offensive. Medjez-el-Bab was at the limit of the Allied advance in December 1942 and remained on the front line until the decisive Allied advances of April and May 1943. There are 2,903 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated in Medjez-el-Bab War Cemetery;
385 of the burials are unidentified. Special memorials commemorate three soldiers buried in Tunis (Borgel) Cemetery and one in Youks-les-Bains Cemetery, whose graves are now lost. Within the cemetery stands the Medjez-el-Bab Memorial, bearing the names of almost 2,000 men of the First Army who died during the operations in Algeria and Tunisia between 8 November 1942 and 19 February 1943, and those of the First and Eighth Armies who died in operations in the same areas between 20 February 1943 and 13 May 1943, and who have no known graves. The five First World War burials in Medjez-el-Bab War Cemetery were brought in from
Tunis (Belvedere) Cemetery or in Carthage (Basilica Karita) Cemetery in 1950.
From June to November 1917, Commonwealth Forces (XV Corps) held the front line in Belgium from St Georges (now Sint Joris), near Ramskapelle, to the sea. Most of
Plot I of Ramscappelle Road Military Cemetery was made in July and August 1917, but the cemetery was considerably enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from other burial grounds in the area and from the battlefields. There are now 841 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery; 312 of the burials are unidentified, but special memorials commemorate two casualties known or believed to be buried among them. There are also special memorials to 26 casualties originally buried at Nieuport (now
Nieuwpoort) whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
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Spoilbank Cemetery was begun in February 1915, and used by troops holding this sector until March 1918. It was enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields of Ypres. The cemetery contains 520 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 125 of the burials are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 11 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
The Belgian Military cemetery contains a plot of 30 Commonwealth burials of the
First World War, more than half of them of men of the Royal Garrison Artillery. All but one of the burials date from October and November 1918.
The first rest camps for Commonwealth forces were established near Terlincthun in
August 1914 and during the whole of the First World War, Boulogne and Wimereux housed numerous hospitals and other medical establishments. The cemetery at
Terlincthun was begun in June 1918 when the space available for service burials in the civil cemeteries of Boulogne and Wimereux was exhausted. It was used chiefly for burials from the base hospitals, but Plot IV Row C contains the graves of 46 RAF personnel killed at Marquise in September 1918 in a bombing raid by German aircraft. In July 1920, the cemetery contained more than 3,300 burials, but for many years Terlincthun remained an 'open' cemetery and graves continued to be brought into it from isolated sites and other burials grounds throughout France where maintenance could not be assured. During the Second World War, there was heavy fighting in the area in 1940. Wimille was devastated when, from 22 - 25 May, the garrison at Boulogne fought a spirited delaying action covering the withdrawal to
Dunkirk. There was some fighting in Wimille again in 1944. The cemetery suffered considerable damage both from the shelling in 1940 and under the German occupation. The cemetery now contains 4,378 Commonwealth burials of the First
World War and more than 200 war graves of other nationalities, most of them
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German. Second World War burials number 149. The cemetery was designed by
Sir Herbert Baker.
'Tyne Cot' or 'Tyne Cottage' was the name given by the Northumberland Fusiliers to a barn which stood near the level crossing on the Passchendaele-Broodseinde road.
The barn, which had become the centre of five or six German blockhouses, or pillboxes, was captured by the 2nd Australian Division on 4 October 1917, in the advance on Passchendaele. One of these pill-boxes was unusually large and was used as an advanced dressing station after its capture. From 6 October to the end of March 1918, 343 graves were made, on two sides of it, by the 50th
(Northumbrian) and 33rd Divisions, and by two Canadian units. The cemetery was in German hands again from 13 April to 28 September, when it was finally recaptured, with Passchendaele, by the Belgian Army. Tyne Cot Cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when remains were brought in from the battlefields of Passchendaele and Langemarck, and from a few small burial grounds.
It is now the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world in terms of burials. At the suggestion of King George V, who visited the cemetery in 1922, the Cross of
Sacrifice was placed on the original large pill-box. There are three other pill-boxes in the cemetery. There are now 11,953 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World
War buried or commemorated in Tyne Cot Cemetery. 8,366 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to more than 80 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate 20 casualties whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker. The Tyne Cot Memorial forms the north-eastern boundary of
Tyne Cot Cemetery and commemorates nearly 35,000 servicemen from the United
Kingdom and New Zealand who died in the Ypres Salient after 16 August 1917 and whose graves are not known. The memorial stands close to the farthest point in
Belgium reached by Commonwealth forces in the First World War until the final advance to victory. The memorial was designed by Sir Herbert Baker with sculpture by F V Blundstone.
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During the two world wars, the United Kingdom became an island fortress used for training troops and launching land, sea and air operations around the globe. There are more than 170,000 Commonwealth war graves in the United Kingdom, many being those of servicemen and women killed on active service, or who later succumbed to wounds. Others died in training accidents, or because of sickness or disease. The graves, many of them privately owned and marked by private memorials, will be found in more than 12,000 cemeteries and churchyards. Between
1914 and 1919, the 5th Northern General Hospital, with more than 2,600 beds, occupied several buildings in Leicester and North Evington. More than 95,000 officers and men were admitted to the hospital, which recorded 514 deaths before its closure. During the Second World War, there was a Royal Air Force operational training station near Leicester. Welford Road Cemetery contains 286 First World
War burials, more than half of them forming a war graves plot with a screen wall bearing the names of those buried there. The 46 Second World War burials are scattered throughout the cemetery, which also contains seven Belgian war graves.
The Menin Gate is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. Broadly speaking, the Salient stretched from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert Wood in the south, but it varied in area and shape throughout the war. The Salient was formed during the First Battle of Ypres in October and November 1914, when a small British
Expeditionary Force succeeded in securing the town before the onset of winter, pushing the German forces back to the Passchendaele Ridge. The Second Battle of
Ypres began in April 1915 when the Germans released poison gas into the Allied lines north of Ypres. This was the first time gas had been used by either side and the violence of the attack forced an Allied withdrawal and a shortening of the line of defence. There was little more significant activity on this front until 1917, when in the
Third Battle of Ypres an offensive was mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert
German attention from a weakened French front further south. The initial attempt in
June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines Ridge was a complete success,
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but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July, quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the rapidly deteriorating weather. The campaign finally came to a close in November with the capture of
Passchendaele. The German offensive of March 1918 met with some initial success, but was eventually checked and repulsed in a combined effort by the Allies in September. The battles of the Ypres Salient claimed many lives on both sides and it quickly became clear that the commemoration of members of the
Commonwealth forces with no known grave would have to be divided between several different sites. The site of the Menin Gate was chosen because of the hundreds of thousands of men who passed through it on their way to the battlefields.
It commemorates those of all Commonwealth nations (except New Zealand) who died in the Salient, in the case of United Kingdom casualties before 16 August 1917.
Those United Kingdom and New Zealand servicemen who died after that date are named on the memorial at Tyne Cot, a site which marks the furthest point reached by Commonwealth forces in Belgium until nearly the end of the war. Other New
Zealand casualties are commemorated on memorials at Buttes New British
Cemetery and Messines Ridge British Cemetery. The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial now bears the names of more than 54,000 officers and men whose graves are not known. The memorial, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield with sculpture by Sir
William Reid-Dick, was unveiled by Lord Plumer in July 1927.
The 1911 census was carried out on Sunday 2 April. A search of this census has been carried out for the twenty 1914-19 casualties named on the memorial. It has been possible to positively identify 17 of these. Details of their families have been
transcribed from the 1911 census website and are given below in Table 1 below.
The name of each casualty has been highlighted.
A reproduction of an actual return for the 1911 census, containing the entry for
Malcolm Duncan Robertson, completed and signed by his father, John Charles
Robertson, is given in Figure 1.
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Figure 1. Example of a page from the 1911 census of Leicester. This page contains the entry for Malcolm Duncan Robertson.
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Table 1. 1911 census data for the households containing those 1914-18 casualties named on the memorial
Address
10 St Albans Road, Leicester
65 Bulwer Road, Leicester
176 London Road, Leicester
Main Street, Mountsorrel
39 Albion Street, Leicester
3 Mundella Street, Leicester
Name
Noah Hall
Jane Elizabeth Hall
Rowland Needham
John Henry Needham
Mary Jane Beckett
Ernest Beckett
Stepson
Stepson
Stepdaughter
Grandson
Edward Johnson Bolton
Caroline Elizabeth Bolton
Marian Elizabeth Bolton
Head
Wife
Daughter
Charles Barrowdale Carryer Head
Mary Ann Carryer Wife
Charles Ivan Carryer
Priscilla Watson
Son
Mary Ann Branson
Eliza Branson
Florence Branson
Frank Cooper
Head
Daughter
Daughter
Visitor
William Ellis
William Frederick Ellis
John William Fower
Elizabeth Fower
James Arthur Fower
Ernest William Fower
George Harry Fower
Mary Ellen Fower
Elsie Sarah Fower
Relation to head of family
Head
Wife
Head
Son
Head
Wife
Son
Son
Son
Daughter
Daughter
Age last birthday
74
62
Occupation
Retired publican
55
21
46
50
24
22
19
17
15
32
30
36
16
35
25
2
53
52
13
62
69
29
26
26
Retired clerk
Professional cricketer
Housekeeper
School
Gardener domestic
Director - Hosiery manufacturer
School
Cook
Housekeeper
Griswold stocking maker
Weaver elastic web
Stockroom hand
Boot repairer
Carpet fitter
Carpenter and joiner
Carpenter and joiner
Engineers clerk
Tobacco and cigar traveller
Hosiery mender
Hosiery hand
Where born
Houghton, Leicestershire
Frisby by Gaulby,
Leicestershire
Huncote, Leicestershire
Huncote, Leicestershire
Huncote, Leicestershire
Shipdam, Norfolk
Groby, Leicestershire
Hull, Yorkshire
Leicester
Leicester
Leicester
Leicester
Foxton, Leicestershire
Mountsorrel, Leicestershire
Mountsorrel, Leicestershire
Mountsorrel, Leicestershire
Kingsthorpe,
Northamptonshire
Arnesby, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Lavendon, Buckinghamshire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
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Address
10 Ripon Street, Leicester
8 Belmont Villas, New Walk,
Leicester
13 Bonsall Street, Leicester
4 Springfield Road, Leicester
Name
Ernest Leonard Grant
Ellen Grant
Relation to head of family
Head
Wife
Grace Edna Grant
Gertrude Grant
Daughter
Daughter
Leonard Grant Son
William Warrington Harding Head
Cary Louisa Harding Wife
Samuel Collis Harding
William Roy Harding
Son
Son
Ernest George Harding
Mary Ann Briers
Son
William Allan Frank Haunton Head
Francis Maud Haunton Wife
Allan L Haunton
Iris Edna Haunton
Son
Daughter
James Henry Hodgkins Head
Sarah Hodgkins
Sidney Hodgkins
James Percy Hodgkins
Doris Mabel Hodgkins
Phyllis Hodgkins
Annie Maria Gosling
Ellen Wardle
Wife
Son
Son
Daughter
Daughter
Visitor
7
4
1
47
44
17
12
7
30
30
26
7
4
56
45
20
19
17
14
41
20
Age last birthday
31
27
Occupation
Boot operator
Master dyer
Foreman dyers assistant
School
School
Servant
Warehouseman
High Bailiff Leicester County
Court
High Bailiff’s assistant
Law student
School
School
Servant
Where born
Leicester, Leicestershire
Hanging Houghton,
Northamptonshire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
New Brighton, Cheshire
Rearsby, Leicestershire
Scarborough, Yorkshire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Hammercliffe, Leicestershire
Stamford, Lincolnshire
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Address
54 Skipworth Street, Leicester
41 Twycross Street, Leicester
76 Laxton Street, Leicester
61 Evington Road
Name
Ralph William Clifford
Hopcroft
Emma Hopcroft
Leonard Ralph Hopcroft
Horace Philemon Hopcroft
Archibald Leslie Hopcroft
Lilla Evelyn Hopcroft
Mary Ann Hopcroft
Albert Edward Victor
Hopcroft
Edith Mary Pickering
Henry William Hopkin
Eliza Hopkin
Fred Head Hopkin
Annie May Hopkin
Henry Edward James
Ada James
Sidney James
Dennis James
Charles Henry James
Henry Edward James
Ada Gladys James
Herbert Mansfield
Elizabeth Ann Mansfield
Herbert Charles Mansfield
Margaret Alice Mansfield
Horace William Mansfield
Alice Maud Trueman
Relation to head of family
Head
Wife
Son
Son
Son
Daughter
Daughter
Son
Boarder
Head
Wife
Son
Daughter
Head
Wife
Son
Son
Son
Son
Daughter
Head
Wife
Son
Daughter
Son
Age last birthday
46
Occupation
Warehouseman
45
25
18
16
14
11
8
Grocer
Warehouseman
Brushmaker
Grocer assistant
School
School
25
47
23
19
15
16
Glover hand
59
52
24
20
Millers waggoner
Printer
Machinist
39
40
13
12
Sail and tentmaker
School
School
8
4
5 months
School
49 Clerk to Guardians Parish of
Leicester
Solicitor
School
Servant
Where born
Luton, Bedfordshire
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Nottingham, Nottingham
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Lubenham, Leicestershire
Glen Parva, Leicestershire
Brington, Northamptonshire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Earl Shilton, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Ellistown, Leicestershire
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Address
Charnwood House, Sileby, nr
Loughborough
15 Evington Road, Leicester
Holm Dene, 13 St James Road,
Leicester
Name
Relation to head of family
John William Moir
Alice Moir
Leslie John Moir
Kathleen Moir
Dorothea Moir
Violet Neale
Florry Woods
Head
Wife
Son
Daughter
Daughter
Walter Evans Clark Nichols Head
Florence Nichols Wife
Lionel Walter Nichols
Florence Kathleen Nichols
Son
Daughter
Luke Jesse Parker Head
31 Ashover Road, Leicester
Mary Jane Parker
Mary Emily Parker
Walter L Parker
Grace Lilian Parker
Norman Webster Parker
Nona Christine Parker
Cyril Edward Parker
Wife
Daughter
Son
Daughter
Son
Daughter
Son
John Charles Robertson
Emily Jane Caroline
Robertson
Head
Wife
Donald Charles Douglas
Robertson
Son
Malcolm Duncan Robertson Son
Christine Mary Robertson Daughter
53
26
17
19
14
11
9
49
47
Age last birthday
41
42
6
3
3
21
21
37
40
14
11
51
Occupation
Boot manufacturer
Servant
Nurse
Post office sorting clerk
School
School
District superintendent of boot shops
Typist
Warehouseman
School
School
School
Pianoforte tuner and repairer
22
20
17
Pianoforte player and repairer
Pianoforte and organ repairer
Shop assistant
Where born
Woking, Surrey
Windsor, Berkshire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Sileby, Leicestershire
Sileby, Leicestershire
Great Glen, Leicestershire
Barrowden, Rutland
B, Leicestershire
Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Mildenhall, Suffolk
Leicester, Leicestershire
Mountsorrel, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Wigston, Leicestershire
Wigston, Leicestershire
Canterbury, Kent
Islington, London
Islington, London
Islington, London
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Address
140 St Saviour’s Road East,
Leicester
Name
George Taylor
Martha Elizabeth Taylor
Frank Taylor
Walter Taylor
Lauretta Taylor
Harold Taylor
Evelyn Taylor
Sydney Howard Taylor
Leonard Stephen Taylor
Edward Thoyst
Relation to head of family
Head
Wife
Son
Son
Daughter
Son
Daughter
Son
Son
Age last birthday
44
44
18
16
15
13
10
8
4
Occupation
Designer and pattern cutter
Apprentice photographic lens maker
Clicker
Machinist
School
School
School
School
Where born
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
Leicester, Leicestershire
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